Trekking in Time
Untitled, 2000 by Hrafnkell Sigurðsson
Trekking in Time
Ystads konstmuseum
3 September – 13 November 2016
Trekking in Time is an international group exhibition that gathers and presents art works by artists that have worked with hiking from different perspectives. It shows works that are both historical and contemporary. It can be works where the artists have used hiking as an action, artistic expression or as a performance.
Urban parasites by Gilberto Esparza
Urban Parasites: MRN
Urban parasites is a work of art consisting of artificial objects / organisms that live in the urban space. They survive by collecting energy they can get in their surroundings. Dblt and clgd, for instance, feed on the city’s power-lines.
Another cool and interesting installation by Niklas Roy!
Pneumatic Sponge Ball Accelerator
– an interactive installation at the Tschumi Pavilion in Groningen, The Netherlands 2014
Funded by Gemeente Groningen, Kunstraad Groningen and GasTerra.
If you, like me, don’t have the possibility to visit the installation right away you can, in the mean time, visit Niklas Roy’s website. He is a real master in making good documentation of his project with well written descriptions, pictures and videos. Niklas Roys website
All images are published under a CC BY-NC license.
net.art Painters and Poets
Exhibition view of net.art Painters and Poets, photo: Andrej Peunik
The exhibition period: June 19. 2014 – August 31. 2014
net.art Painters and Poets is an exhibition of net.art at the City Art Gallery of Ljubljana.
The exhibition show a collection of significant artists working in this genre. Internet art are rarely seen or presented in a gallery space, for understandable reason, as it is an art form that takes place on the Internet and can easily be viewed from home. I believe, by exhibiting in the white cube format, it can be a way to bring a certain attention to this genre and it can receive a bigger understanding and the entitlement it deserves.
The exhibition is curated by Vuk Ćosić & Alenka Gregorič.
Exhibition view of net.art Painters and Poets, photo: Andrej Peunik
Participant artists: !MEDIENGRUPPE BITNIK, 0100101110101101.org, Cory Arcangel, Kim Asendorf, Aram Bartholl, Mez Breeze, Cristophe Bruno, Heath Bunting, Shu Lea Cheang, Paolo Cirio, Vuk Ćosić, Constant Dullaart, Lisa Jevbratt, JODI, Justin Kemp, Olia Lialina, Alessandro Ludovico, Mouchette, Mark Napier, Evan Roth, ®TMark, Eryk Salvaggio, Alexei Shulgin, Teo Spiller, Igor Štromajer, Thomson & Craighead, Ubermorgen, Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries, Jaka Železnikar
More information at City Art Gallery’s website
Exhibition view of net.art Painters and Poets, photo: Andrej Peunik
The Emergent City. A Life From Complexity to The City of Bits by Stanza
An installation by Stanza
With different electronic parts Stanza has created a network, city-like, installation. The city seems to live its own life; light is blinking, objects are twirling. This does not occur randomly, but is controlled and connected with a network of sensors placed in the city, outside of the gallery space. Read more
VIDA 15.0 Award
Rotes Rauschen by Kerstin Ergenzinger, photo: Anna Kindvall
I have to say that this year’s VIDA 15.0 Awarded projects constitute a great selection of really interesting artists. The first prize went to Kerstin Ergenzinger for her work Rotes Rauschen, second to Agnes Meyer-Brandis for her Moon Goose Analogue: Lunar Migration Bird Facility and third to Yunchul Kim for his work Effulge.
Present by Alejandro Borsani
Present is an artwork which simplicity makes it poetic. To me the work is about existence and time; about presence here and now and the non-lasting moment that has already past as it happens.
Nandita Kumar
eLEmeNT: EaRTh by Nandita Kumar
I recently stumbled on Nandita Kumar’s electronic works. Nandita Kumar is a young Indian artist who uses electronics in her very own particular way. It is quite common that artists who use electronics in their work keep them visual, as part of the esthetic expression. I’ve also seen many artists who make sculptures and installations of old electronic parts, then using only their esthetics.
Microtonal Wall by Tristan Perich
Microtonal Wall by Tristan Perich
Microtonal Wall is a work by the sound artist Tristan Perich. The work consists of 1500 one-bit-speakers, each playing a specific tone, within a total span of 4 octaves. The speakers are mounted on an large aluminum plate. From a distance the collection of frequencies turns into white noise. However, as the visitor approaches the work, each tone can be singled out.
Blinkenlight
Last week I spent a couple of days in Berlin, where I past by the Haus des Lehrers at Alexanderplatz. It made me think of Blinkenlight – a nice project in 2001 that transformed this building into a low-resolution monochrome interactive computer screen.
Darsha Hewitt
Feedback Babies is a kinetic sound installation consisting of three Nursery Monitors. The Nursery Monitors in the installation are from the 80’s which gives the installation some kind of retro look. The baby monitor and the receiver are placed in a close distance, about 20 cm, facing each other. This is much closer than you would usually place them and therefore an audio feedback is produced. The receiver makes a slow bowing-like movement by help of a long string attached to a motor.
Aram Bartholl
Visiting Dead Drops in Malmö at Ängelholmsgatan 1.
I don’t know if Aram Bartholl refers to himself as a street artist, but at least some of his works fall into this genre.
Dead Drops is one of them and an offline peer to peer file-sharing project. It consists of a USB-memory stick mounted in outer walls in the public space. By connecting your computer to the memory-stick you can download and upload files of your choice and thereby share files with others without using the Internet.
Pendulum Music On A Long Thin Wire
In December 2012 at Objet Inusité at Eastern Bloc in Montreal, Canada, Peter Flemming presented a sound installation/performance, Pendulum Music On A Long Thin Wire.
The installation includes two machine performers, both with two long arm-like pendulums. A thin piano string, is attached above them. The string is vibrating electromagnetically and the vibration generates sound.
RAUCHWOLKEN UND LUFTSCHLÖSSER
LUNAR BIKE, Astronaut Training Method No. VII, Videostill, Moon Goose Colony © Agnes Meyer-Brandis, VG-Bildkunst 2012
Rauchwolken und luftschlösser (Smoke clouds and air castle) is the title and theme of the current exhibition at GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst in Bremen, Germany.
The exhibition presents eight artists Ralf Baecker, Kerstin Ergenzinger, Hannes Hoelzl, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Mikael Mikael, Studio NAND, Lucas Odahara and Hannes Waldschütz. Read more
Pit, pit, chirp, chirp, kvidevitt, kvidevitt
Photo: Jean-Pierre Gauthier
Jean-Pierre Gauthier, the artist I wrote about last week, is currently presenting an interactive sound sculpture at Värnhemstorget in Malmö, Sweden. The two meter tall red sculpture has four wheels. By turning them you can generate four different bird-like sounds. Read more
Jean-Pierre Gauthier
Effondrements, photo: Jean-Pierre Gauthier
The first time I saw a work of Jean-Pierre Gauthier was at transmediale in Berlin 2006 at the Smile Machine exhibition. The very same year Electrohype had the opportunity to include his work Effondrements in the biennial 2006. It is an kinetic sound installation where he uses found everyday objects such as buckets, a laundry basket, electric cords and other things you can find in any home. Read more
Niklas Roy
My little piece of Privacy, an interactive installation by Niklas Roy
Niklas Roy describes himself as an inventor of useless things. He is an artist based in Berlin producing really great interesting artworks with electronics, which often have a humoristic absurdity and ironic twist. In this post I only highlight a couple of his projects. You can find more of his works on his website.
I miss add art
I miss add art, the nice FireFox add-on that replaced advertising on websites with curated art. I really like the idea of being fed with art rather than advertisement while browsing the web.
add art is a free and open source project developed by the artist Steve Lambert hosted at Eyebeam. It works as an extension for the popular FireFox add-on, AdBlock plus that replaces ads with blank spaces. A combination with AdBlock and add art turns your browser into an art gallery as it replaces the empty spaces with art.
Real Snail Mail
Real Snail Mail by boredomresearch, Courtesy of [DAM]Berlin, photo: Crisxkcracker Films
An artwork that deals with these questions is the very sweet project Real Snail Mail™ by boredomresearch. The work will be exhibit at the Soft Control: Art,Science and the Technological Unconscious Exhibition from 15th Nov – 15th Dec 2012, Maribor, Slovenia.
Net.Specific
The 26th of October, I visited the symposium that was part of the launch of Net.Specific at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Denmark.
Net.Specific is an exhibition website for net-based art. The first exhibition, Communication Paths, is curated by Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen (an announcement was posted here earlier).
The exhibition includes the artists:0100101110101101.ORG / Eva & Franco Mattes (I), JODI (B/NL), Michelle Teran (CA), Jens Wunderling & Philipp Bosch (DE) and Anders Bojen & Kristoffer Ørum (DK).
Knight of Infinite resignation by Diane Landry
This is my first post about a Canadian artist and I can assure you that many more will follow. My opinion is that Canada is one of the most interesting countries when it comes to electronic art. Canadian pioneers, such as Norman T. White, Doug Back and David Rokeby, have all had a significant impact on this particular art genre and been a great source of inspiration for many of its artists.
Diane Landry lives and works in Quebec City. Her installation Knight of Infinite resignation is currently featured in the exhibition Oh, Canada at MASS MoCA. The exhibition runs through 8 of April , 2013.
Carved Air exhibition with Yunchul Kim
Carved Air exhibition with Yunchul Kim Photo: Katja Hommel
If you happen to be in Berlin this autumn, I highly recommend the exhibition by Yunchul Kim that runs until 1 December at Schering Stiftung. I will unfortunately not be able to attend the exhibition, but am glad that I got the chance to see the works he presented at Edit-Russ-Haus, Oldenburg last summer.
State of Being at Edith-Russ-Haus
Whiskers in Space by Kerstin Ergenzinger
In July I went to Oldenburg, Germany. The main reason for my visit was to see the exhibition State of Being at Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art with Yunchul Kim and Kerstin Ergenzinger. It was really nice to be able to see this exhibition. I know the two artists quite well from working with them in several exhibitions, so it was a great pleasure for me to see some of their new projects. I liked the exhibition a lot and found it very interesting. I also think the two artists’ works respond very well to each other.
Rundgang, Cologne
Mendy by Lucas Buschfeld
A trip to Germany and Cologne this summer, with my good friend and German artist Kerstin Ergenzinger as my guide and companion, gave me the great opportunity to visit Rundgang – a yearly student exhibition presented by KHM (Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln/Academy of Media Arts Cologne)
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